The State of Victoria has been ordered to pay $250,000 in damages to a police officer who sustained a psychological injury and tried to commit suicide after being bullied by a supervisor. The Court of Appeal rejected the State's claim that the officer had been contributorily negligent in failing to make a complaint about the bullying.
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